Almost home

One hour to go.
I’ve been sitting on this airplane for about 15 hours at this point and we’ve got about an hour to go until we touch down in San Francisco. It should be a good time to capture some of the things I’ve been thinking over the past day or so.
First off, I feel pretty much like dog meat right now. My body just is not accustomed to sitting for so many hours in a row. I did manage to get two miles on the treadmill before leaving Dubai but airplane food, drink and idleness (not to mention a ten hour time change) wiped away any positive feeling I got from that. Further, I feel fat – plain old too-big-for-my-jeans, legs-rub-togetherr kind of fat. I know its all relative and few people, if any would say that I am actually overweight. But I know how much more comfortable and confident I felt when I was lighter and by comparison I don’t feel good.

Earlier this week I mentioned that travel had made some of my bad food habits and behaviors more visible to me. After a full week of observing myself, I’ve come up with the following ridiculisms (“truisms that are clearly ridiculous”)

• Food consumed in an airport lounge doesn’t count
• Food consumed in an airplane doesn’t count (especially alcohol and sweets)
• Food consumed to be socially correct doesn’t count
• When eating at a buffet, taking a little bit of lots of different foods is somehow less fattening than picking a few things and having a meal
• Dessert from the buffet doesn’t count – especially when you have a little bit of almost every dessert option
• Exercise while travelling counts more than exercise while at home
• Drinking lots of water completely makes up for the other not so good eating
As I said, “ridiculisms”.
I’m looking forward to getting home and starting up the good habits that I will adhere to through out my Kettlebell Burn experiment. I would have liked to be able to say “get back to my good habits” but on observing myself for the past week, I think I no longer have good habits to get back to.
But I will get there…
Food so far today (because I don’t have my paper log nearby):
• 2 glasses of champagne and some nuts (do love the business class lounge)
• Fruit and yogurt, omelette, 1 piece of roti bread
• Twix candy bar and some dried fruit
• Roasted nuts and a glass of champagne
• Salad and mezze appetizer
• Beef, beans, mushrooms and polenta
• Fruit cobbler with ice cream